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Author: Cath Hassell2

October 2020 – shower blog on hold due to Covid 19 fatigue

October 2020 – shower blog on hold due to Covid 19 fatigue

Luckily not actual Covid 19 fatigue as (touch wood) I have so far managed to escape catching the virus. But the depressing and inexorable rise of it again across Europe has seeped into my brain and October has come and

Cath Hassell2 October 29, 2020October 29, 2020 Shower Blog Read more

Frankie’s new adventure …

Frankie’s new adventure …

Lisa, Lexi and Leroy all very excited that they get starring roles. Right now they are a bit frustrated that they can only get a black and white photo of how cool they look. The Flamingo Investigation Department’s IT team

Cath Hassell2 October 16, 2020March 24, 2021 Leopards that changed their spots latest Read more

See through loos – Japan – ech2o newsletter snippet

See through loos – Japan – ech2o newsletter snippet

In Japan there are, apparently, two concerns with public toilets, especially those located in parks. The first is whether it is clean inside, and the second is that no one is secretly waiting inside. These loos, that turn opaque once

Cath Hassell2 October 7, 2020October 7, 2021 Water Around The World Read more

September 2020 – Showering on ‘The Bridge’

September 2020 – Showering on ‘The Bridge’

    I have a cousin who lives in Malmo and Suhith is a massive fan of the Scandi Noir series The Bridge so thought it would be a great idea to combine the two in a road trip to

Cath Hassell2 September 15, 2020September 15, 2020 Shower Blog Read more

Frankie and some more superfans!

Frankie and some more superfans!

Livia and Zadie have just (live in Australia and post a bit dodgy due to Covid) got their copy of The mysterious case of the elephant that forgot and are are checking out the The mysterious case of the sinking

Cath Hassell2 August 28, 2020August 28, 2020 Frankie on tour Read more

August 2020 – lockdown

August 2020 – lockdown

‘That’s the shower blog for you. Always just behind the eight ball.’ As Mu wouldn’t have said cos she wasn’t a big sports fan. (Though she did know that Georgie Best ‘played for England’ – LOL). She was also a

Cath Hassell2 August 28, 2020December 22, 2020 Shower Blog Read more

July 2020 – cute animals in showers

July 2020 – cute animals in showers

Finally here – after being erroneously promised for both May and June – a blog about cute animals in showers including frogs, rats, penguins and more…   Frogs I just love Australian green tree frogs…And Christopher’s loo and shower used

Cath Hassell2 July 30, 2020July 30, 2020 Shower Blog Read more

The mysterious case of the frog in the toilet cistern

The mysterious case of the frog in the toilet cistern

  Part 1 Due to Corona virus the zoo animals were currently looking after themselves. Apart from the gorillas, Warren the warthog and Frankie the flamingo’s rather annoying cousin Florence, who had found the deepest, leakiest paddling pool ever invented

Cath Hassell2 July 1, 2020March 30, 2021 The mysterious case of sinking flamingo latest Read more

I wish I’d been a monk … Warren Liebold, Europe in the Middle Ages

I wish I’d been a monk … Warren Liebold, Europe in the Middle Ages

Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire, by Roberta L. Magnusson, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.   Before reading Water Technology in the Middle Ages I don’t think it ever occurred to

Cath Hassell2 June 25, 2020 Water Around The World Read more

Pneumatic Poo – Philippa Jefferis, UK

Pneumatic Poo – Philippa Jefferis, UK

What links Cairo, Oman, Gibraltar, Bolivia, Porto and the capital city Yangon in Myanmar with the Houses of Parliament in London? Unless you have really spent a lot of time doing pub quizzes during this Lock Down, then it is

Cath Hassell2 June 11, 2020July 3, 2020 Water Around The World Read more
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